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Innovation & Growth Marketing Manager

Robeco

Rotterdam
Full-time
10+ years experience
On-site

Key Skills

Digital Marketing
Social Media Strategy
Paid Search
Marketing Transformation
AI Adoption
Data Analytics
Change Management
Audience Targeting
Content Distribution
Budget Allocation
KPI Management
Marketing Innovation
Team Leadership
CRM
Automation

Job Description

Department

Shape Robeco’s digital growth agenda by leading the social media strategy, driving AI-powered innovation, and turning data-driven opportunities into scalable marketing impact across global teams.


Robeco's Digital Marketing team, consisting of 12 colleagues, leads the global digital strategy and execution for the firm. This includes topics such as Data Analytics, Email, Social Media, Digital platforms and CRM, in close partnership with our local market teams worldwide. The team is responsible for driving commercial visibility and engagement for Robeco's investment capabilities, and is actively investing in new tools and ways of working — including AI and automation — to make marketing faster, smarter, and more scalable.  


Position & Requirements

As Innovation & Growth Marketing Manager, you will set the strategic direction and priorities for Robeco's global social media activity. You will ensure these channels work together to advance Marketing and business priorities, while enabling your team members to translate the strategy into campaigns, content and continuous optimization. You lead the paid search direction and performance, as well as the organic social media channels. You oversee the planning, audience targeting and budget allocation in partnership with your team and external agencies.


You will also drive the adoption of AI across Marketing and identify broader innovation opportunities that can improve effectiveness, speed and scalability. Working across global and local teams, you will turn promising ideas into practical pilots, build support for new ways of working and help scale the initiatives that create measurable value.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Define and lead Robeco’s global social media and paid search strategy, aligning channel priorities, campaigns and investments with business and marketing objectives.
  • Drive the performance of paid and organic social media, overseeing content, audience targeting, budget allocation, community engagement and cross-functional campaign execution.
  • Continuously optimize channel effectiveness through KPI management, data analysis, testing and actionable recommendations that improve visibility, engagement and commercial impact.
  • Champion AI adoption in Marketing, identifying high-value use cases, leading pilots, scaling successful solutions and ensuring compliance with governance and risk standards.
  • Lead marketing innovation and team development by identifying emerging opportunities, evaluating new technologies, shaping the innovation roadmap and developing channel specialists to deliver results.

What You Bring:

  • +12 years working experience in digital marketing, social media and marketing transformation
  • Experience in managing teams and developing team members, clear priority setting and enabling high performance
  • Interested in AI and emerging marketing technology, experience with change management
  • Understanding of social platforms, paid search, organic social media, audience targeting, content distribution, paid media optimization, channel performance, global marketing operating models and social media agency delivery

Research shows that female candidates only apply if they meet 100% of the requirements, while male candidates already do so at 60%. Are you hesitant about whether you meet all requirements? Please do apply, we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.

Robeco Recruiting Team

Core Responsibilities

You will define and lead the global social media and paid search strategy while driving AI-powered innovation across marketing initiatives. Additionally, you will oversee team development, budget allocation, and the continuous optimization of digital marketing performance.

Requirements

Candidates must have over 12 years of experience in digital marketing, social media, and marketing transformation. Strong leadership skills, experience with AI and emerging technologies, and a deep understanding of global marketing operating models are required.

About Robeco

Industry: Financial Services

Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees

Robeco is an international asset manager offering an extensive range of active investments across equities, fixed income, and multi-asset, as well as tailored solutions. Research has been at the heart of everything we do since our foundation in Rotterdam in 1929. We turn data and analysis into investment ideas to help our clients navigate market noise with confidence. At Robeco, we aim to build a more complete picture of opportunities and risks by connecting quantitative intelligence with fundamental expertise and other sources of insight such as sustainable investing and next-gen research. Who we are: As a global asset manager, we center our offering around your needs. We’re committed to building differentiated investment strategies on foundations of deep expertise, dedicated research and a long-term perspective. We’ll guide you towards ground-breaking active investment strategies leveraging quantitative, fundamental, and sustainable investing insights. Interested in investing for today and tomorrow’s needs? As markets and economies evolve, we’re committed to ongoing innovation in designing strategies and customizing solutions to suit different client objectives.

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